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Since my early teens, I have kept a regular journal. And even if I don’t remember to write every day, I do on most. My father, a journalist, set an incredible example, to the extent that he regularly pulls out past journals on holidays and birthdays to remind us of all that happened some years […]

This is a guest post from the awesome Mary DeMuth. I love the concept of “restory”, and can’t wait to start throwing the word around as a verb in wild abandon. # I had great plans for the year. I read Claire’s latest book, Design Your Day, determined to change the way I ordered my […]

I’m extremely efficient with my writing. It’s true. I am. Friends laugh that I write books in a weekend. I’m not that good, but I’m close. I can knock out amazing amounts of content in short bursts. I don’t exactly know why this is, but I like it. (Don’t worry, I’m terribly slow at other […]

I love presents. I do. And so, I was both not surprised and slightly embarrassed when I read The Five Languages of Love and found that “Gifts” were my love language. If you give me gifts, I will think you love me. Because of my passion for gifts (they don’t have to be wrapped well, FYI), I […]

My friend Jeff has opened his Tribe Writers class again until Monday, March 31 at midnight. This wildly popular class opens only a few times a year. And, because I’m nine months pregnant and confused about things like timelines, I didn’t realize until last night that it had closed. This was because I couldn’t sleep (too […]

I’ve been writing a lot of late. Finishing edits for next book. Writing a series on traveling the world over at my LinkedIn Influencer blog. Moaning in my journal about how much I miss eating dairy but then realizing how much better I feel when I don’t. Blah blah blah. Writing is a hard thing, and […]